I believe (through entirely indirect sources) that Buzz is successful inside Google in a way Wave was not. Unlike Wave they have at least managed to create som

I believe (through entirely indirect sources) that Buzz is successful inside Google in a way Wave was not. Unlike Wave they have at least managed to create something that is successful even when it's not successful -- I can happily read Twitter and some blogs through Buzz without feeling left out, while enjoying some of the advantages of Buzz when they are available. Wave didn't feel like that to me... it was potentially super-cool while being practically entirely uncool. I don't think it was going anywhere... and that indeed may have been because Google as an organization wasn't capable of doing what it takes to make a novel interface (at least in terms of Lars' inferred critique). That's the criticism of Buzz that is most obvious and resolvable from this article as well -- Buzz looks blandly Googlish, no more or less. When integrated into Gmail, sure... but why should my Google Profile (which is also the container for deep links to my Buzz posts) be so incredibly boring? The good parts of Buzz? Honestly it's just the balance of interaction and community. Facebook has a solid (and useful!) basis as an interpersonal communication tool. I use it with family and friends and it provides genuine social value. Twitter fills the professional side... and Twitter is great for pithy comments, but I've had enough with pithy comments and the celebrity stance -- Twitter succeeds in popularity because of its constraints, but for those same reasons it dodges any thoughtful discourse. It's just not for me any more, and while I'm not wedded to Buzz there needs to be a not-Twitter... and I kind of suspect Twitter can never be that, because maybe there needs to be 3 things (even though it only feels like there needs to be 2 things).